"Soft power" Anatoly elbow

In April 2014, Anatoly Lokot defeated the election race of the acting mayor of Vladimir Znatkov. An experienced federal politician outplayed an experienced business executive. It was obvious that the coalition that rushed under the banner of the elbow used the accumulated conflicts and contradictions among the Novosibirsk elites. But the further ability of the new team to resist conflicts with elites and not to lose the city’s management was in question.

Obligations and coalition

After the victory of the regional committee of the Communist Party and personally, the elbow fulfilled all the Cloaror agreements in relation to the allies. All participants in the process - who rattled the victory and even simply accompanied the main political players - were able to realize their talents in the "City Hall of popular trust". Everyone had a chance, although in the concepts of the most powerful representatives of the elite of small allies it would be more correct to leave a great political voyage outside.

Victory has many fathers, but the responsibility for the further development of Novosibirsk fell exclusively on Anatoly's elbow. The very first managerial decisions reassured supporters of stability. The new mayor did not arrange revolutions, although many associates demanded this. And some people even considered the refusal of the Communist Party of the Communist Party in the governor’s elections to the opponent Vladimir Gorodetsky. In the future, however, the mayor of the elbow proved that he was not going to submit fundamental issues (for example, Sibmost’s claims for 2.5 billion rubles).

If we exclude disputes vital for the city budget, then the rest of the elbow continued the former historical line of relations between the regional committee of the Communist Party and Vladimir Gorodetsky that time when the current governor was the head of the city. The communists at that time were opposition to power, but at the same time always observed the obligations and agreements. By and large, conflict situations, or sabotage on fundamental issues, the extensors of the Communist Party of the Communist Party were never arranged in full force.

The flexibility of the political course of the elbow his opponents tried to imagine as weakness. They said that he is too much inferior to political rivals. It was surprised that the new mayor for a long time suffers the odious participants of the former team and so on. In the Novosibirsk policy, which secretly living according to the laws of the jungle, Anatoly Lokot really looked like an inorganic element, which for some reason did not want to deceive and substitute anyone.

Over time, elite groups secretly admitted that the flexibility of the elbow gradually turned into its main power. It is enough to compare how the reaction of the deputies to the annual reports of the mayor has changed. In 2015, a strong questions and criticism from a dozen speakers. In 2017, only a couple of clarifying questions asked by a completely friendly tone. And this despite the fact that most in the City Council are representatives of United Russia. Moreover, there are representatives of the most monetary building lobby, which, at the elbow, became more difficult to conduct business due to new land use and development rules. The mayor settled the rules for more than a year, and this “revolution in urban planning policy” was even more smooth than the reorganization of the criminal gusinobrod flea market.

Barakholka and conflicts

By the way, about the flea market. The three five -year planes of the Novosibirsk authorities tried to restore order on this largest street container trade in the Urals. Each progress towards the civilized format was pumped by the next murder of a senior official or deputy. Billion turns continued to spin in the shadow sector. At the elbow, the process went supported by economic solutions (creating alternative shopping centers), and several hundred radical sellers who at a critical moment moved to the city hall march, managed to take from the streets to the negotiation hall and, ultimately, go to a conflict decision.

The elbow prefers to prevent conflicts, which objectively deprives him of a certain part of honored laurels. For example, he is Rubani from his shoulder according to monstance, so he would have scored in certain reactionary and power circles much more points than he lost. If you conduct a focus group and give out sociology about how residents are understood by the function of the head of the city, then the results will most likely be discouraging. To many, to many, the image of the boss of the boss, who takes everything under personal control and in a dismissive tone, sucks negligent subordinates.

But politics is the art of compromises. The effectiveness of the politician, in theory, should be measured by the number of localized conflicts. Anatoly Lokot is focused on such an understanding of its tasks. If the mayor dismisses, then he tries to do without a public rinse named after the exile (few people know that for the sake of the city priority the Green City had to change half of the parking lots). If he appoints, he carefully weighs the candidate’s ability to play according to open rules and his willingness to work for one salary without feeding in “related business”.

Just three years ago, the bison of the Novosibirsk elite looked at such approaches with a hidden grin. But time has changed imperceptibly. And, it seems, many felt that real demand is quickly formed on a new format of policy among active citizens.

Sergey Plotnikov, especially for Taiga.info